Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

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On Monday, 16 October 2017 11:23:22 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Pieter-Tjerk de Boer <p.t...@ut...>:
> > Well, as Ethan pointed out, the version I have at
> >   http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/tmp/gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
> > seems to be 1.1.0 from January 26, 1987, predating the others, so I guess
> > including it would make sense.
> 
> The mainplot directory looks like a primitive GNUPLOT, all right.  Do you
> have any idea what that stuff in the other two drectories is?

The help directory contains a bunch of small files, each with text help
on one topic.  The gnuplot "help" command didn't exist yet.

The plotdocs directory contains a utility and makefile that stitches those help
files together into nroff format.

	Ethan